Official: Anambra State University Renamed After Ojukwu
Anambra State University in Uli has been officially renamed after the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
The Anambra House of Assembly on September 11th passed a bill,
changing the name of the state-owned university at Uli to Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu University.
The bill was passed during the plenary of the legislature in Awka to honour the former Biafra hero.
The decision followed the report of the House Committee on Education which recommended the change of the name.
Mrs Rita Maduagwu (APGA Nnewi South 2), the Chairman, House Committee
on Education, recalled that the bill had been read the second time on
the floor of the house on Dec. 17, 2013.
She said that the committee found that the university’s name had been
changed before from Anambra State University of Science and Technology
and that there were a number of provisions in the extant law that
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